mwbutcher / beaker-pe

Puppet Enterprise (PE) Beaker Library

beaker-pe

The Puppet Enterprise (PE) Beaker Library

What is This Thing?

The PE Beaker library contains all PE-specific

1. installation methods
2. helpers

that help someone acceptance test PE easier with Beaker.

Upgrading from 0.y to 1.y?

If you've used beaker-pe previously (during the 0.y versions), you'll have to change the way that you include beaker-pe for 1.y versions & beyond.

Before, you could just include beaker itself and you'd get beaker-pe because beaker required beaker-pe. With beaker 3.0, this dependency has been taken out of beaker. Now to use beaker-pe, you'll have to do two things:

1. add a beaker-pe requirement as a sibling to your current beaker gem requirement
2. put a require 'beaker-pe' statement in your tests/code that need beaker-pe-specific functionality

Spec Testing

Spec tests all live under the spec folder. These are the default rake task, & so can be run with a simple bundle exec rake, as well as being fully specified by running bundle exec rake test:spec:run or using the test:spec task.

There are also code coverage tests built into the template, which can be run with spec testing by running the test:spec:coverage rake task.

Acceptance Testing

Acceptance tests live in the acceptance/tests folder. These are Beaker tests, & are dependent on having Beaker installed. Note that this will happen with a bundle install execution, but can be avoided if you're not looking to run acceptance tests by ignoring the acceptance_testing gem group.

You can run the acceptance testing suite by invoking the test:acceptance rake task. It should be noted that this is a shortcut for the test:acceptance:quick task, which is named as such because it uses no pre-suite. This uses a default provided hosts file for acceptance under the acceptance/config directory. If you'd like to provide your own hosts file, set the CONFIG environment variable.